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CHARLES ASHOURDS, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,462, dated May 29, 1883. i

Application filed December 28,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. SHoURDs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and `State of NewpJersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement whereby the production of jvarying colors by the rotation of a disk bearingthe elementary colors is effected in a simple manner. I attain this object by `the contrivance illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1- represents a wheel inclosing a colored disk, B. Fig. 2 is a three-fourths view of the same, showing the method of opera-ting. Fig .3 is a side elevation ofthe disk. Fig. 4

l is a section of same.

\ The wheel is rotated by the torsion of a string or strings, on the principleof the wellknown toy commonly called a buzz;7 but instead of -the usual plain disk I employa f wheel, as` shown, consisting of a rim, A, and

i i spokes or radial arms a b, one-half the number t 25 ot' which spokes arearranged on each edge of the rim, respectively, thus affording space between them for thedisk B. On each side of i.

the wheel a string is passed round the spokes at their pointof intersection,which string may be of suitable length, and the ends of which are united. i

Fig.2 shows the method ot' operating. The disk B, Fig. 3, bears upon each surface several colors, and, bein g smaller than the wheel, lies loosely therein and changes its position rela-` ltive to the same with each reversal ofthe mo- CHARLES F. SHOURDS.

Witnesses: y

GEORGE D. Pack,A JOHN C. HA BIG. 

